Hook for drop-wires on doubling or other textile machines.



v PATENTEQ NOV. 8, 1904.

- J. R. MITCHELL.

HOOK FOR DROP WIRES 0N DOUBLING OR OTHER TEXTILE MACHINES.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 11. 1904.

N0 MODEL.

UNTTED STATES Patented November 8, 1904.

PATENT OEETcE,

JOHN R. MITCHELL, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

HOOK FOR DROP-WIRES ON DOUBLING OR OTHER TEXTILE MACHINES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 774,593, dated November 8, 1904.

Application filed May 11, 1904- To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN R. MITOHELL, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, county of New York, State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hooks for Drop-Wires on Doubling or other Textile Machines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in hooks for drop-wires on doubling or other textile machines; and it especially comprises improvements on the hook patented December 19, 1899, to IV. J. Morgan under Patent NO. 639,264.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of the improved hook, and Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of the same.

Referring to the drawings, it will be seen that the hook of the present invention and the patented hook have in common abody, which is preferably of glazed porcelain, having a socket 1 at its lower end adapted to receive the wire or other object to which the hook is attached and having at its upper end an elongated eye 2 and an inclined slot 3, opening into the eye. The features of the improved hook which are not shown in the patent mentioned will now be described.

A finger or shelf 4, integral with the hook, extends into the eye in a slightly-upward direction and divides the eye, forming a lower recess 5 and an upper recess 6. The thread normally runs through the upper recess 6 and rests on the finger at. If the thread runs loose and escapes from the finger, it will drop into the lower recess 5, being guided into said recess and prevented from passing out through the slot 3 by a reentrant portion 8 of the hook, which overhangs the inner end 9 of the lower wall of the slot. The thread is also prevented from dropping out through the slot 8, because the slot enters the eye above the bottom of the latter. In other words, the lower recess 5 extends below the slot-opening, and it receives and guides the thread, preventing it from escaping through said opening. When the thread becomes tighter, it again passes into the upper recess 6 of the eye, being pre vented from passing out through the slot 3 by the upwardly-inclined direction of the slot,

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the upper wall of the slot forming a guide to direct the thread inwardly. The upper recess is highest and somewhat angular at the point 7 at the rear side of the recess 6, thus tending to hold the thread over and in position to fall onto said finger when it runs loose.

The upper lip 10 of the hook preferably projects beyond the lower lip, which greatly facilitates threading the hook, rendering it only necessary to draw the thread upward over the face of the hook when it engages the upper lip 10 and automatically passes through the slot 3 and into the recess 6. It will thus be seen that my improved hook is so constructed that the thread is prevented from accidentally escaping from it. It also carries the thread normally in the upper recess close to the end of the hook, and the thread is automatically returned to this recess should it escape from it. The present hook has these advantages in addition to those claimed for the patented hook referred to.

Without limiting myself to the precise construction and arrangement of parts shown, what I claim is 1. A hook for guiding thread in textile machinery consisting of a body-having an elongated eye at its upper end, an inclined slot opening into the eye above the bottom thereof, and a finger projecting into the eye above the slot.

2. A hook for guiding thread in textile machinery consisting of a body having an elongated eye in its upper end, an upwardly-inclined slot opening at its upper end into said eye above the bottom thereof, and an upwardly-projecting finger extending into said eye above said slot.

3. A hook for guiding thread in textile machinery consisting of a porcelain body having a socket in its lower end and an elongated eye in its upper end, a finger projecting into said eye at one side thereof, and a slot extending into said eye at the other side thereof and above the bottom of the eye.

4:. A hook for guiding thread in textile machinery consisting of a porcelain body having an elongated eye in its upper end, an upwardly-directed finger projecting into said eye at one side thereof, and an upwardly-inclined slot communicating at its upper end with said eye and on the side opposite said finger and above the bottom of the eye.

5. A hook for guiding thread in textile machinery, consisting of a body having an eye and an upwardly-inclined slot opening into the eye the Wall of the hook above the slot having portions 8 and 10 overhanging the lower wall of the slot, for the purpose set 10 forth.

6. A hook for guiding thread in textile machinery, consisting of a body havlng an eye and an upwardly-inclined slot opening into the eye, the wall of the hook above the slot having an overhanging lip 10 adapted to guide the thread into the slot in threading the hook.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of tWo subscribing Witnesses.

JOHN R. MITCHELL.

Witnesses:

A. LONGEE, W. J. FLANAGAN. 

